I had a student who had emailed me the second day of class and "told" me that all of her assignments would be late due to her work schedule and that she only had an afternoon and evening one day a week to do all of the week's homework. She further informed me that she did not expect to lose any points for her late submissions. I responded to her email with a constructive reply about how the class was set up, pointed her to the late submission policy, and asked in that email if there were other times she… >>>

In my current position of instructing, we teach in an accelerated, asynchronous environment. Included in the courses are "live chat" sessions. Student can attend the true, live chat session on its presentation day or choose to access and review the archive of the session at their leisure 24/7 within the weekly parameters for a given topic. I have found that few people attend the live chat session at its initial taping. I have experimented with various times and days to hold these sessions, but never have more than 20% of a given class attend. All of the student must either… >>>